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regiment and rank, please
« on: Friday 12 January 24 13:52 GMT (UK) »
Can anyone identify regiment and rank for this man please? And what might be the significance of the armband on his left upper arm?

(I bought a job lot of old negatives and have just begun to scan them. which is where this image comes from. I have no other information about the negatives.)
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Re: regiment and rank, please
« Reply #1 on: Friday 12 January 24 14:18 GMT (UK) »
He is a Captain, I can’t say the Regiment without checking.
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: regiment and rank, please
« Reply #2 on: Friday 12 January 24 14:32 GMT (UK) »
Thanks!
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Re: regiment and rank, please
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 13 January 24 10:40 GMT (UK) »
And a married smoker!

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« Reply #4 on: Saturday 13 January 24 10:41 GMT (UK) »
Sherlock Holmes is in the building!
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« Reply #5 on: Saturday 13 January 24 21:13 GMT (UK) »
And a married smoker!

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And carrying in the spirit of this....middle class to upper middle class with the signet ring worn on little finger right hand.  In some of these classes who actually did not go much on wedding rings, none of the men in my dad's middle class family wore wedding rings, on marriage they sometimes moved the signet ring to the little finger left hand. 

ETA I actually cannot recall any of the men of my parents generation wearing a wedding ring.  I do recall some wearing a signet ring on their third finger right hand.  This is thinking mainly from a protestant family.  Perhaps RC families had wedding rings and signet rings......

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Re: regiment and rank, please
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 14 January 24 07:10 GMT (UK) »
More fodder for your deductive efforts – here is the full photo.
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« Reply #7 on: Sunday 14 January 24 07:25 GMT (UK) »
I think this is the same man in the driver’s seat?
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Re: regiment and rank, please
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 14 January 24 07:49 GMT (UK) »
@6

I think this is a father and his sons,

or father and son (back right) and nephews (the rest)., or
 father and son and son's friends

Visiting at a hospital (WW1?)

@7
there are similarities between the driver and the captain